Mastering Linux Security and Hardening

Obtaining and installing Snort

Snort isn't in the official repository of any Linux distro, so you'll need to get it from the Snort website. On their downloads page, you'll see installer files in the .rpm format for Fedora and CentOS and a .exe installer file for Windows. However, you won't see any .deb installer files for Ubuntu. That's okay because they also provide source code files that you can compile on a variety of different Linux distros. To make things simple, let's just talk about installing Snort on CentOS 7 with the prebuilt .rpm packages.

You can get Snort and Snort training from the official Snort website: https://www.snort.org.

On the Snort home page, just scroll down a bit, and you'll see the guide on how to download and install ...